Engineering Senior Backend Engineer (Darwin) London £80K - £130K

V7 Labs; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves designing and building backend services that power cutting-edge AI models, working with technologies like Elixir, AWS, and Docker. You will be responsible for optimizing data flow and ensuring efficient operations for AI features. The company is committed to fostering a collaborative and flexible work environment, offering competitive salaries and a range of impressive perks. If you are passionate about functional programming and AI, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in the tech landscape.

Benefits

Private Healthcare & Dental Care

Pension Contribution

Learning and Development Budget

Apple MacBook

Wellbeing and Mental Health Budget

Personalised Benefits Platform

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 Days Holiday

Work from Anywhere for One Month

Paid Conference Attendance

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of projects and expertise in backend engineering.
• Experience with functional programming and AWS infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for AI model training and inference.
• Optimize data flow and enhance visibility in backend tasks.

Skills

Elixir

Functional Programming

AWS

RabbitMQ

Docker

Infrastructure Management

Architectural Design

Machine Learning

Observability

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Higher Education in Related Field

Tools

Postgres

Terraform

Job description

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin.

V7 were recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

About the Role (Senior Backend Engineer)

We work with billions of training data images to leverage some of the world's most complex and general purpose AI models. Our back-end development is world-class and not short of challenges.

Team’s mission: Design, build and orchestrate backend services that enable our customers to train and leverage AI models in an elegant and performant way.

Technologies we use: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS

What You’ll Do (Senior Backend Engineer)

• Join the team in building solutions to speed up the time to complete annotations tasks.
• Be the go-to backend engineer in the team responsible for the data flow of the AI features, both from a codebase point of view and infrastructural one.
• Take ownership of backend tasks related to our model training and inference systems, focusing on enhancing visibility and minimizing costs.
• Upgrade/Redesign our autoscaling system for model interference.
• Facilitate seamless integration between V7's web application and our AI system, serving as the crucial link to optimize our system for labeller’s speed.
• Employ orchestration techniques to oversee backend tasks and jobs, guaranteeing that the models provided to customers are sufficiently resourced for efficient operation.

Who you are (Senior Backend Engineer)

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field with a strong portfolio of projects.
• A backend engineer with strong architectural design skills.
• Expertise in functional programming, with working experience using Elixir.
• A strong interest in ML and applying AI to solve problems.
• Infrastructure management experience at scale; you should be comfortable in using AWS and terraform.
• Proficiency in queue management and observability, utilizing RabbitMQ as our primary tool.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Docker.
• Fluent in English.

What's the interview process: 1st Hiring Manager Interview, 2nd Take Home Challenge, 3rd collaborative technical zoom interview, 4th Co-Founder Values interview.

What's in it for you?

• London salary: £90k-£130k.
• Remote/EU salary: £80k-£120k.
• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme.
• Private Healthcare & dental care via Bupa for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK.
• Pension contribution through Nest.
• £800 Learning and Development budget.
• Apple MacBook suitable for your role.
• Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen.
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• 30 days holiday, plus an additional year for every day of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top.
• 4-day company-wide and 4-day departmental retreats in stunning locations.
• Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent.
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year.
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times.